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BESS project leads, UK: consented and dated

The battery projects that just stopped being drawings.

Most storage projects are never built, which makes a list of them close to worthless. What matters is the milestone that commits one to a delivery window — a capacity market contract, a firm connection date — because it is dated, it is binding, and the procurement that follows it is real.

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CM/T-4/2026/0147written for equipment and epc

49.9 MW storage project commits to a build window

  • Milestone passed 12 September 2026; delivery window opens October 2027.
  • 49.9 MW, held by a project company incorporated in 2024.
  • The parent has taken three projects through the same milestone since 2024.
  • No main contractor announced.

49.9 MW with a dated window thirteen months out and nothing named yet, behind a parent that has done this three times and will do it again. This is the point at which main plant is specified.

What puts a card here
A storage project passes the milestone that commits it to a dated delivery window.
When the money moves
The window is dated, and the date is on the record.
You sell
storage and solar EPC, switchgear, transformers, main plant

Three things the card tells you that a list cannot.

The permission is the start of it. What makes the call worth making is what the other records say about the company holding it, 13 of them read together.

  1. The capacity in megawatts and the date the window opens, so you know whether it is this year's pipeline or the next.
  2. The project company, the developer behind it, and whether that developer has built anything before.
  3. Whether finance is already secured against the project, which tells you if the build is funded.

Who reads this one.

  • Storage EPC contractors
  • Battery, inverter and PCS suppliers
  • Transformers and switchgear
  • Containerised systems and balance of system
  • Owner's engineers

Questions about this one.

How is this different from a list of battery storage projects?
A list includes every project that has been proposed, most of which will never be built. A card is a project that has just committed to a date, which is the one fact that separates a real procurement from a hopeful one.
Do you name the EPC if one is appointed?
Where it is on the record, yes. More often it is not yet, and the card says so, because an unlet project is exactly the one worth calling about.